Q&A: How Scientists Link Extreme Weather to Climate Change
A rapid near-time analysis of the UK’s record-breaking wet December in 2015 suggests that climate change increased the odds of the exceptionally high rainfall by 50-75%.
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Climate Holism vs. Climate Reductionism
Climate change may be the biggest threat facing humanity, but the way we’re currently going about fighting it just ensures that, even if we prevail, another threat will follow, and another, and another.
Livestock – Climate Destroyer or Saviour via Soil?
Is the way we farm animals and turn them into food part of the problem or the solution to the myriad of social and environmental issues we face today?
6 predictions for 2016
Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on.
Anthropocene Working Group: Yes, a New Epoch has Begun
Is the Holocene now over? Has human activity changed the Earth System so much that a new epoch has begun? Are we now in the Anthropocene?
We can’t Control Floods without Farmers
Simple arithmetic tells us that a few tweaks to farming could make a huge difference to Britain’s ability to cope with floods – and with the droughts we could be facing in a few months’ time.
Aliso Canyon: How bad is the California gas leak disaster?
In Los Angeles, an invisible environmental disaster is unfolding.
The Hidden Agenda: How Veiled Techno-utopias Shore Up the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is a genuine triumph of international diplomacy and of how the French people brought an often-fractious world together to see beyond national self interest.
Map: Where Climate Change Could Hit Electricity Production
Research out this week maps where power plants around the world are most at risk from higher water temperatures and decreased water availability.
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches
Cleanup crews were dispatched to beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi, on December 27th to remove over a thousand dead fish and the remains of other animals.
How Science Can Help to Halt The Western Bark Beetle Plague
For residents of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada, global warming is not an abstract concept.
To Change Everything, it’s Going to Take Everything We’ve Got
We’re in a crisis so deep, so knotted, so unprecedented, and so urgent that, well, we have to change everything, pretty much. Or else.
